Dear Jason - If you wish to participate in any discussion, then take the time to read and follow the posts.  No one goes and says "hey someone is talking about you on SOT."  You have the choice to follow posts or not - but it is your choice.  As far as your comment as trust issues, I allocate the response to your age.  It is common for youth to divert blame or make reason on something that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.  As you live longer, you will be able to focus better on the subject at hand.  "Trust" has nothing to do with MY definition of a "qualified abstractor."  There are people out there who would like to say they can perform the work but that does not make them "qualified" in my definition of the word.  I am not directing that against you specifically - it is what I feel should be accepted in the industry as a "qualified" abstractor and that is one with extensive training in real estate law and transactions.   

You own a title agency and because of that you are diverting your attention towards the profits of the mandated premiums received on a loan closed.  Because of that, in your business dealings, you have chosen to give deals, etc. on other services, such as the title search itself.  You have failed to see how that directly affects those of us which provide that as our basic service.  Perhaps we should seek deregulation of title premiums and let you all fight for them while we have our abstracting fees regulated at a much higher rate.  We could provide title insurance by greatly undercutting you and make all our money on the abstracting part - how would that affect your business?  Can you not see, that while you are protected in your "set premiums" you are hurting others in the industry by doing what you are doing?  Can you see where that could be an irritating issue for many of us on SOT?